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The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say.
Here's what happened: I just didn't have any stories waiting to be told. Simple as that. It was one thing to take a random picture and jam on it for 500 words, and another to think through and write a story out of thin air. Honestly, I have never been a great story teller. I stopped trying to write fiction years ago because I couldn't come up with stories that were worth a tinker's damn, and now it seems I've run out of anything to write about altogether unless it's the pointless crap that fills up all these millions of terrible blogs.
So now i am not sure what to do. I was just going to go back to the same old same old, but maybe it really is time to give it up once and for all. Maybe getting away from blogging for a few months "cured" me of it, and this is the final proof that I have reached complete mindlessness. I have nothing left to say, nothing worth contributing, nothing original or creative or interesting. It's not what I expected to happen when I decided to spend some time writing again, but perhpas it's for the best anyway.
I need to think about all of this a little and I'll get back to you.
Kind of all or nothing?
Posted by Karan [URL] at 02/27/06
"I have nothing left to say, nothing worth contributing, nothing original or creative or interesting." Yeah. I'm having a hard time believing this - sorry, but I am.
Why does writing have to be about telling a story? As passionate as you are about things, as articulate as you are, don't you think there is something to be said for being the voice of a particular perspective? Write essays, write commentary - not just the snarky little bits in the blogosphere (ugh). Write something that weaves history, culture, and cuisine.
So if writing for you is about telling stories and you said yourself that you've never been a great storyteller, maybe it isn't that you're not a great storyteller so much as maybe you're trying to tell the wrong kind of stories. I'll bet you could combine analytical insight, wry humor, and a desire to pass on knowledge to good effect.
Maybe these weren't the right exercises for you.
Posted by Tony [URL] at 02/27/06
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